Municipality of Turin goes on Linux - five years is planned savings of € 6 million

One of the first major cities in Europe, who have converted to free software, became Munich. Despite some compatibility issues , the whole project was a success, and at the end of 2013. saved the city more than 10 million euros . In late August, the city authorities Turin announced the decision to перевести 8300 urban computers on Linux . This transition has been discussed a couple of years, but it started earlier did not make sense, since they were paid for the license for Windows and Office before the end of 2014. In addition, this year ends official support Windows XP, which was installed on most machines. Switching to Linux is planned for a year and a half.

Besides saving on license fees, use of Linux will also delay the upgrade obsolete, but quite workable iron that is comfortable to work with the latest versions of Windows do not work, but Linux is quite pull office tasks.

Turin is not the first, but one of the largest (population - nearly a million people) cities of Italy, decided to move from Windows to Linux. In 2008, the decision to switch to Linux took power Naples. The transition to free software is planned in the administrative region of Umbria, Apulia and Bolzano, a combined population of about five and a half million.

What Turin moving to Linux one of the first in Italy - is not accidental. The city has several major institutions of higher education, including the most prestigious technical university in the country - the Politecnico di Torino. The city based community of free software enthusiasts Officina Informatica Libera .



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